Adaptive Multi-topology IGP Based Traffic Engineering with Near-Optimal Network Performance (2009)
Ning Wang, Kin-hon Ho, George Pavlou
Abstract. In this paper we present an intelligent multi-topology IGP (MT-IGP) based intra-domain traffic engineering (TE) scheme that is able to handle unexpected traffic fluctuations with...
Chinese medicines as a resource for liver fibrosis treatment (2009)
Feng, Yibin, Cheung, Kwok-Fan, Wang, Ning, Liu, Ping, Nagamatsu, Tadashi, Tong, Yao
Abstract Liver fibrosis is a condition of abnormal proliferation of connective tissue due to various types of chronic liver injury often caused by viral infection and chemicals. Effective therapies...
Wang, Zhe, Shi, Wu, Xie, Hang, Zhang, Ting, Wang, Ning, Tang, Zikang, ...
We report superconducting resistive transition characteristics for array(s) of coupled 4-Angstrom single wall carbon nanotubes embedded in aluminophosphate-five (AFI) zeolite. The transition was...
Bending-induced conductance increase in individual semiconductor nanowires and nanobelts (2009)
Han, Xiaobing, Jing, Guangyin, Zhang, Xinzheng, Ma, Renmin, Song, Xuefeng, Xu, Jun, ...
Reliable ohmic contacts were established in order to study the strain sensitivity of nanowires and nanobelts. Significant conductance increases of up to 113% were observed on bending individual ZnO...
Effective leadership in competition (2009)
Zhang, Hai-Tao, Wang, Ning, Chen, Michael Z. Q., Zhou, Tao, Zhou, Changsong
Among natural biological flocks/swarms or even mass social activities, when the collective behaviors of the followers has been dominated by the moving direction or opinion of one leader group, it...
Rapid diagnosis of spinal muscular atrophy using High-Resolution Melting Analysis (2009)
Chen, Wan, Dong, Wan, Lin, Xiao, Lin, Min, Murong, Shen, Wu, Zhi, ...
Abstract Background Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is an autosomal recessive hereditary disorder caused by mutations of the survival motor neuron 1 ( SMN1 ) gene. Recently, high-resolution DNA melting...
AtbHLH38 and AtbHLH39 interact with FIT, functioning in control of iron uptake in Arabidopsis (2009)
Ling, Hong-Qing, Wu, Huilan, Du, Juan, Wang, Ning
Arabidopsis was used as a model plant to study the molecular regulation mechanism of iron uptake in strategy I plants and two new iron-regulated bHLH proteins (AtbHLH38 and AtbHLH39) have been...
Bear bile: dilemma of traditional medicinal use and animal protection (2009)
Feng, Yibin, Siu, Kayu, Wang, Ning, Ng, Kwan-Ming, Tsao, Sai-Wah, Nagamatsu, Tadashi, ...
Abstract Bear bile has been used in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) for thousands of years. Modern investigations showed that it has a wide range of pharmacological actions with little...
On the basis of an analysis of some important factors which caused the grim situation of China's historic preservation, this thesis points out the necessity to rethink the relationship between...
A Near-Infrared Spectrometer Based on Novel Grating Light Modulators (2009)
Wei Wei, Shanglian Huang, Ning Wang, Zhu Jin, Jie Zhang, Weimin Chen
A near-infrared spectrometer based on novel MOEMS grating light modulators is proposed. The spectrum detection method that combines a grating light modulator array with a single near-infrared...
Shan, Hongli, Zhang, Yong, Lu, Yanjie, Zhang, Ying, Pan, Zhenwei, Cai, Benzhi, ...
Aims The present study was designed to decipher molecular mechanisms underlying nicotine's promoting atrial fibrillation (AF) by inducing atrial structural remodelling. Methods and results The...
J4.8 EXPERIMENT OF A WAVELET-BASED DATA COMPRESSION TECHNIQUE WITH PRECISION CONTROL (2008)
With the development of computer hardware, observation networks, and numerical weather forecast model techniques, the size of the model data
Genetic Algorithm Based Recurrent Fuzzy Neural Network Modeling of Chemical Processes (2008)
Jili Tao, Ning Wang, Xuejun Wang
Abstract: A genetic algorithm (GA) based recurrent fuzzy neural network modeling method for dynamic nonlinear chemical process is presented. The dynamic recurrent fuzzy neural network (RFNN) is...
Lin, Yi, Fang, Ling, Xue, Xie-Hua, Murong, Shen-Xing, Wang, Ning, Wu, Zhi-Ying
Abstract Background Neuroglobin ( Ngb ), one of novel members of the globin superfamily, is expressed predominantly in brain neurons, and appears to modulate hypoxic-ischemic insults. The mechanisms...
Lithium-ion battery incorporating carbon nanostructure materials (2008)
Tang, Zi-Kang, Sheng, Ping, Liang, Qi, Wang, Ning, Chan, Che-Ting
A lithium ion battery is disclosed in which the negative electrode material comprises carbon nanostructures having no dimension greater that 2μm. The battery has a high reversible capacity of the...
Zhang, Shiwu, Qi, Lisha, Li, Man, Zhang, Danfang, Xu, Shaoyan, Wang, Ning, ...
Abstract Objective To identify the roles of CXCL12 and CXCR4 and the associated mechanism involved in perineural invasion of prostate cancer. Methods The distribution and expression of CXCL12, CXCR4,...
Machiavelli made his celebrated distinction between `the effective truth of things' and the `imaginary republics and monarchies that have never been seen or known to exist.' The scholarly study of...
Machiavelli made his celebrated distinction between `the effective truth of things' and the `imaginary republics and monarchies that have never been seen or known to exist.' The scholarly study of...
Machiavelli made his celebrated distinction between `the effective truth of things' and the `imaginary republics and monarchies that have never been seen or known to exist.' The scholarly study of...
Machiavelli made his celebrated distinction between `the effective truth of things' and the `imaginary republics and monarchies that have never been seen or known to exist.' The scholarly study of...
Wang, Ning, Glidden, Emily J., Murphy, Stephanie, Pearse, Bradley R., Hebert, Daniel N.
The earliest steps in nascent protein maturation greatly affect its overall efficiency. Constraints placed on maturing proteins at these early stages limit available conformations and help to direct...
Comparison of Mitochondrial Control Region Sequences Between Chelydridae and Platysternidae (2008)
Yan, Liang, Zhang, Yan, Wang, Ning, Zhang, Li, Nie, Liu-wang
The sequences of mitochondrial control region (CR) of Macroclemys temminckii , Chelydra serpentina and Platysternon megacephalum were obtained using PCR and sequencing techniques, with...
Cheng, Chun, Xin, Renlong, Leng, Yang, Yu, Dapeng, Wang, Ning
The in vitro chemical stability and etching of ZnO nanostructures in simulated physiological solution (SPS) were studied using electron microscopy. Calcium hydrogen phosphate thin layers were...
constraining cell shape (2008)
Kevin Kit Parker, Amy Lepre Brock, Cliff Brangwynne, Robert J. Mannix, Ning Wang, Emanuele Ostuni, ...
Directional control of lamellipodia extension by
Quasi-elastic scattering and fusion with a modified Woods-Saxon potential (2008)
The elastic and large-angle quasi-elastic scattering reactions were studied with the same nucleus-nucleus potential proposed for describing fusion reactions. The elastic scattering angle...
Pearse, Bradley R., Gabriel, Luke, Wang, Ning, Hebert, Daniel N.
The endoplasmic reticulum (ER) protein GT1 (UDP-glucose: glycoprotein glucosyltransferase) is the central enzyme that modifies N-linked carbohydrates based upon the properties of the polypeptide...
Nengheng Zheng, Tan Lee, Ning Wang, P. C. Ching
This paper describes a speaker identification system that uses complementary acoustic features derived from the vocal source excitation and the vocal tract system. Conventional speaker recognition...
Can virtual humans be more engaging than real ones (2008)
Jonathan Gratch, Ning Wang, Anna Okhmatovskaia, Francois Lamothe
Abstract: Emotional bonds don’t arise from a simple exchange of facial displays, but often emerge through the dynamic give and take of face-to-face interactions. This article explores the...
Scalable sender access control for bi-directional
David Griffin, Jason Spencer, Jonas Griem, Mohamed Boucadair, Pierrick Mor, France Telecom R, ...
This article presents an approach to delivering qualitative end-to-end quality of service (QoS) guarantees across the multiprovider Internet. We propose that bilateral agreements between a number of...
Traffic engineered multicast content delivery without mpls overlay (2008)
Abstract—Multicast traffic engineering (TE) has recently attracted significant attention given the emergence of point-to-multipoint multimedia content delivery over the Internet. Existing multicast...
Environmental production : use of waste materials in cement kilns in China (2008)
This report mainly talks about utilizing the cement kiln to dispose wastes. In China, there are huge amounts of wastes can be produced every year. China government pays more attention to the...
Rinaldi, Ali, Zhang, Jian, Mizera, Jan, Girgsdies, Frank, Wang, Ning, Abd Hamid, Sharifah Bee, ...
Natural bentonite mineral, without any wet chemical treatment, was used directly to catalyze the growth of multi-wall CNTs and the produced CNTs/bentonite as an integrated composite stably catalyzed...
Wang, Ning, Yu, Fei-Hai, Li, Ping-Xing, He, Wei-Ming, Liu, Feng-Hong, Liu, Ji-Ming, ...
Background and Aims Many notorious alien invasive plants are clonal, but little is known about some roles and aspects of clonal integration. Here, the hypothesis is tested that clonal integration...
Fusion-fission reactions with modified Woods-Saxon potential (2007)
Wang, Ning, Zhao, Kai, Scheid, Werner, Wu, Xizhen
A modified Woods-Saxon potential model is proposed for a unified description of the entrance channel fusion barrier and the fission barrier of fusion-fission reactions based on the Skyrme...
Scalable Support for Source Specific Multicast In Differentiated Services Networks (2007)
Ning Wang, George Pavlou, Konstantina Papantoni
Abstract. In this paper we propose a scalable framework for providing differentiated QoS multicast channels for end users with heterogeneous requirements based on the Source Specific Multicast (SSM)...
Scalable Sender Access Control for Bi-directional Multicast Routing (2007)
Abstract. Bi-directional shared tree is an efficient routing scheme for interactive multicast applications with multiple sources. Given the open-group IP multicast service model, it is important to...
Scalable IP Multicast Sender Access Control for Bidirectional Trees (2007)
Abstract. Bi-directional shared tree is an efficient routing scheme for interactive multicast applications with multiple sources. Given the open-group IP multicast service model, it is important to...
Scalability in QoS-aware multicast deployment has become an important research dimension in recent years. In this paper we propose a new scheme named Differentiated QoS Multicast (DQM) based on the...
A Practical Mobile-Code Format with Linear Verification Effort (2007)
We present an abstract machine that encodes both type safety and control safety in an efficient manner and that is suitable as a mobile-code format. At the code consumer, a single linear-complexity...
2.2 Choosing Φ-function Operands................... 4 (2007)
Jeffery Ronne, Ning Wang, Alexander Apel, Michael Franz
Optimizing compilers, including those in virtual machines, commonly utilize Static Single Assignment Form as their intermediate representation, but interpreters typically implement stack-oriented...
Pork Quality Classification Using a Hyperspectral Imaging System and Neural Network (2007)
Jun, Qiao, Ngadi, Michael, Wang, Ning, Gunenc, Aynur, Monroy, Mariana, Gariepy, Claude, ...
Pork quality is usually determined subjectively as PSE, PFN, RFN, RSE and DFD based on color, texture and exudation of the meat. In this study, a hyperspectral-imaging-based technique was developed...
Pork Quality Classification Using a Hyperspectral Imaging System and Neural Network (2007)
Jun, Qiao, Ngadi, Michael, Wang, Ning, Gunenc, Aynur, Monroy, Mariana, Gariepy, Claude, ...
Pork quality is usually determined subjectively as PSE, PFN, RFN, RSE and DFD based on color, texture and exudation of the meat. In this study, a hyperspectral-imaging-based technique was developed...
Pork Quality Classification Using a Hyperspectral Imaging System and Neural Network (2007)
Jun, Qiao, Ngadi, Michael, Wang, Ning, Gunenc, Aynur, Monroy, Mariana, Gariepy, Claude, ...
Pork quality is usually determined subjectively as PSE, PFN, RFN, RSE and DFD based on color, texture and exudation of the meat. In this study, a hyperspectral-imaging-based technique was developed...
Investigations of glycoprotein co-translational maturation in the cell (2007)
The earliest steps of nascent protein folding are critical to the overall folding efficiency. Folding events start as soon as the protein is translocated into the endoplasmic reticulum lumen, where...
Investigations of glycoprotein co-translational maturation in the cell (2007)
The earliest steps of nascent protein folding are critical to the overall folding efficiency. Folding events start as soon as the protein is translocated into the endoplasmic reticulum lumen, where...
Creating Rapport with Virtual Agents (2007)
Jonathan Gratch, Ning Wang, Jillian Gerten, Edward Fast, Robin Duffy
gratch, nwang, gerten, fast at ict.usc.edu Abstract. Recent research has established the potential for virtual characters to establish rapport with humans through simple contingent nonverbal...
Threaded rod continuity system for precast prestressed girder bridges (2006)
This dissertation recalls the earlier research on Precast Prestressed Girders Continuity System done at the University of Nebraska and introduces a new design detail by placing Threaded Rod (TR)...
The Size-dependent growth direction of ZnSe nanowires (2006)
Cai, Yuan, Chan, Siu Keung, Sou, Iam Keong, Chan, Yu Fai, Su, Dang Sheng, Wang, Ning
Threaded rod continuity system for precast prestressed girder bridges [electronic resource] / (2006)
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Evaluation of Frying Oil Quality Using VIS/NIR Hyperspectral Analysis (2005)
Kazemi, Samira, Wang, Ning, Ngadi, Michael, Prasher, Shiv O.
Rosana G. Moreira, Editor-in-Chief; Texas A&M University
A role of TGF[beta]/BMP in leukemogenesis through interaction between SMAD4 and HOXA9 / (2005)
Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Alabama at Birmingham, School of Joint Health Sciences, 2005.
A portable virtual machine target for proof-carrying code (2005)
Michael Franz, Deepak Ch, Andreas Gal, Vivek Haldar, Fermín Reig, Ning Wang
Virtual Machines (VMs) and Proof-Carrying Code (PCC) are two techniques that have been used independently to provide safety for (mobile) code. Existing virtual machines, such as the Java VM, have...
A portable virtual machine target for proof-carrying code (2005)
Michael Franz, Deepak Ch, Andreas Gal, Vivek Haldar, Fermín Reig, Ning Wang
Virtual Machines (VMs) and Proof-Carrying Code (PCC) are two techniques that have been used independently to provide safety for (mobile) code. Existing virtual machines, such as the Java VM, have...
Experimental evaluation of polite interaction tactics for pedagogical agents (2005)
Ning Wang, W. Lewis Johnson, Paola Rizzo, Erin Shaw, Richard E. Mayer
Recent research shows that instructors commonly use politeness strategies to achieve affective scaffolding in educational contexts. The importance of affective factors such as self-confidence and...
A Semi-Automated Wizard of Oz Interface for Modeling Tutorial Strategies (2005)
Paola Rizzo, Hyokyeong Lee, Erin Shaw, W. Lewis Johnson, Ning Wang, Richard E. Mayer
Abstract Human teaching strategies are usually inferred from transcripts of face-to-face conversations or computer-mediated dialogs between learner and tutor. However, during natural interactions...
The politeness effect: Pedagogical agents and learning gains (2005)
Ning Wang, W. Lewis Johnson, Richard E. Mayer, Paola Rizzo, Erin Shaw, Heather Collins
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Experimental evaluation of polite interaction tactics for pedagogical agents (2005)
Ning Wang, W. Lewis Johnson, Paola Rizzo, Erin Shaw, Richard E. Mayer
Recent research shows that instructors commonly use politeness strategies to achieve affective scaffolding in educational contexts. The importance of affective factors such as self-confidence and...
Rheology of airway smooth muscle cells is associated with cytoskeletal contractile stress (2004)
Dimitrije Stamenovic, Ning Wang, Mesenchymal Stem Cells, I. Titushkin, M. Cho, X. Trepat, ...
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On Egress Router Selection for Inter-domain Traffic with Bandwidth Guarantees (2004)
Kin-hon Ho, Ning Wang, Panos Trimintzios, George Pavlou, Michael Howarth
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Lei Qu, Ning Wang, W. Lewis Johnson
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A Portable Virtual Machine Target for Proof-Carrying Code (2003)
Michael Franz, Deepak Chandra, Andreas Gal, Vivek Haldar, Fermin Reig, Ning Wang
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Interpreting Programs in Static Single Assignment Form (2003)
Jeffery Von Ronne, Ning Wang, Michael Franz
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Coase on the nature of economics (2003)
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Determining Wheat Vitreousness Using Image Processing and a Neural Network (2002)
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Enabling Efficient Program Analysis for (2002)
Dynamic Optimization Of, Ning Wang, Michael Franz, Niall Dalton
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Evaluation of flexible pipes under shallow burial depths / (2002)
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Wang, Ning, Zhang, Hehui, Nobel, Park S.
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Nobel, Park S., Andrade, Jose Luis, Wang, Ning, North, Gretchen B.
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This study examines the problems involved in oral English teaching in the Chinese tertiary institution Erwai (the Beijing Second Foreign Language Institute). In the study the author analyses oral...
This study examines the problems involved in oral English teaching in the Chinese tertiary institution Erwai (the Beijing Second Foreign Language Institute). In the study the author...
This study examines the problems involved in oral English teaching in the Chinese tertiary institution Erwai (the Beijing Second Foreign Language Institute). In the study the author...
MEASURING TRANSACTION COSTS: DIVERGING APPROACHES, CONTENDING PRACTICES
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The dynamic mechanical behavior of living cells has been proposed to result from timescale-invariant processes governed by the soft glass rheology theory derived from soft matter physics. But this...
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Chang-Lin Mei, Ning Wang, Wen-Xiu Zhang
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Ning Wang, Chang-Lin Mei, Xiao-Dong Yan
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Association between Ngb polymorphisms and ischemic stroke in the Southern Chinese Han population
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